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Hebrew wordlink #373483

OSHB Nah 2:12 מְעוֹן (məˊōn) Strongs=4583 Lemma=‘מָעוֹן’
contextual word gloss=‘[is_the]_dwelling_place_of’ word gloss=‘den_of’
Morphology=Ncbsc PoS=common_noun Gender=both Number=singular State=construct
Year=-713 TimeSeries=Prophecies_of_Nahum

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Other uses (4) of identical word form מְעוֹן (Morphology=Ncbsc PoS=common_noun Gender=both Number=singular State=construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מְעוֹן’ (Morphology=Ncbsc PoS=common_noun Gender=both Number=singular State=construct) has 3 different glosses: ‘a_habitation_of’(3), ‘[is_the]_dwelling_place_of’(1), ‘the_habitation_of’(1).

PSA 26:8 contextual word gloss=‘the_habitation_of’ word gloss=‘habitation_of’ OSHB PSA 26:8 word 3

OET-LV: 8 Oh_YHWH I _love the _habitation _of your _house _of_your and_the _place _of the _dwelling _of your _glory _of_your. (PSA_26:8)

OET-RV: 8 Yahweh, I love the house where you live,
⇔ ≈ the place where your power and splendour is continually displayed. (PSA 26:8)

JER 9:10 contextual word gloss=‘a_habitation_of’ word gloss=‘lair_of’ OSHB JER 9:10 word 5

OET-LV: 10  and_I _will _make DOM Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem) into_heaps _of _stones a _habitation _of jackals and_DOM the _cities _of Yəhūdāh/(Judah) I _will _make a _waste from_not _of inhabitant. (JER_9:10)

OET-RV: ⇔  10 On the mountains I’ll take up weeping and wailing,
⇔ ≈ and a funeral song out in the wilderness pastures,
⇔ because they’re left desolate as no one passes through there.
⇔ They don’t hear the sound of cattle or birds or wild animals—
⇔ they’ve fled and gone away. (JER 9:10)

JER 10:22 contextual word gloss=‘a_habitation_of’ word gloss=‘lair_of’ OSHB JER 10:22 word 14

OET-LV: 22 the_sound _of a _report THERE it_is_coming and_a _din great from_a _land _of the_north to_make DOM the _cities _of Yəhūdāh/(Judah) a _desolation a _habitation _of jackals. (JER_10:22)

OET-RV: 22 Listen, it sounds like news has arrived
⇔ ≈ plus there’s a loud rumble from a land in the north
⇔ coming to make Yehudah’s (Judah’s) cities into deserted places for jackals to live in. (JER 10:22)

JER 51:37 contextual word gloss=‘a_habitation_of’ word gloss=‘haunt_of’ OSHB JER 51:37 word 4

OET-LV: 37 And_ Bāⱱel _it _will _become (into)_heaps_stones a _habitation _of jackals a _horror and_a _hissing from_not an _inhabitant. (JER_51:37)

OET-RV: 37 ◙ (JER 51:37)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘מָעוֹן’’ have 6 different glosses: ‘-meon’, ‘-məˊōn’, ‘Meon’, ‘[is_the]_dwelling_place_of’, ‘a_habitation_of’, ‘the_habitation_of’.